The Lunar New Year of 1878 was particularly lively, and there was no hint of pre-war tension in North America, and the festive atmosphere was very strong everywhere with joyful and joyful residents.

In recent years, in Chang'an, Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City, Salem, and Detroit, there have been more than 10-story reinforced concrete high-rise buildings, and more and more cars on the streets, which have become the mainstream of transportation along with trams.

Due to the deliberate restrictions of the major cities, the carriages in the city are becoming more and more scarce, and those who can afford to enjoy are the carriages of the nobles and the rich and other upper-class celebrities, equipped with the insignia of the nobility engraved with seals, and the horses are unusually handsome, and the horses are draped with exquisite velvet horse coats, covering the dung bags hidden behind the horses' buttocks.

Such a carriage has to pay a high city management fee every month, 60 yuan for a horse, 120 yuan for two horses, and 240 yuan for a large carriage dragged by four horses, and it has to be paid every month.

If the carriage is dreaded in the open, you will have to pay a high fine, which can easily start at 100 Tang Yuan, and the nobles of the empire with slightly weaker financial resources cannot afford it.

This has also led to more and more wealthy families buying cars for transportation, following diesel cars, less polluting gasoline engine cars are gradually loved by urban middle-class families and above, so as to quickly become popular.

In addition to trams, automobiles and horse-drawn carriages, the other means of public transport for urban travel was the rickshaw, which could be found in all the cities of the empire.

Most of the people working in the tricycle industry are Italians or white Germans, and the largest population of Chinese is very small.

This is because the most populous Chinese have many employment opportunities, are generally welcomed by factories, mines and trading companies, and it is easy for everyone to communicate with the same kind of culture, and Chinese workers are hardworking and willing to work overtime when they are busy.

Therefore, the Chinese capitalists, factory owners, plantation owners, and ranchers who had a full control over the economic sphere in the empire were more willing to hire Chinese workers, thus forming close employment relations.

Especially in some farms and ranches, the farmer, rancher or plantation owner is more like a family relationship with the worker, and the employer who is not able to treat the worker well is often not well run the farm or ranch.

In this regard

Workers of Chinese descent have a natural advantage in employment, and so do government staff, who must be proficient in Mandarin and English in order to serve the public well.

First, proficiency in Mandarin is a 9 out of 9 white immigrants, so it is difficult for them to compete for government jobs or the police, and not knowing Chinese is the Achilles' heel.

This era

The Chinese Celestial Empire's ideology is very serious, with strong local complexes and clan concepts, and very superstitious beliefs, so there are many people who don't look down on strange ghosts and regard them as aliens.

Especially among the farmers and ranchers who are known for their conservativeness, many people have followed His Majesty the Emperor to fight in all directions, slaughtering Caucasian people like pigs and sheep, and naturally have a pride in their hearts that they can't look down on.

The invincible glory of the Tang Empire has added a sense of self-confidence to the people;

What garbage ghosts, all of them are inferior people who have not evolved well.

This kind of discriminatory concept in society, even Emperor Richard has no choice but to prohibit discrimination against whites through the "Anti-Discrimination Act" introduced in Parliament.

The implication; It is okay to discriminate against Indians in South America and Mexicans in North America, and it is even more justifiable to discriminate against blacks.

The current era has its own limitations, and black people are generally not treated as equal human beings in European countries, and naked indigenous black tribes are openly displayed in London's parks.

Eating, defecating, and even mating were all displayed in the crowd of onlookers, literally treating these indigenous blacks as beasts.

This kind of thinking also affected the Tang Empire, so the Tang Empire strictly forbade blacks from entering the country, and there was no room for blacks to live at all.

In the Empire, once the original owner or farmer of the black slaves is discovered, he will be punished for violating the imperial criminal law, not only will he be punished with bankruptcy, but he will also be put into a forced labor camp to atone for his sins.

At the end of 1877, the total economic output of the Tang Empire grew to 11.775 billion Tang Yuan, ranking first in the world, 16.3% higher than that of the second-ranked Britain.

11.775 billion Tang Yuan is converted into the pound exchange rate, which is 2.355 billion pounds, more than 110 Tang Yuan per capita, which is about half of the per capita income level of the United Kingdom, and higher than France and Germany.

As a world power with a huge population, the total population of Datang has surpassed that of Tsarist Russia, ranking first among the world powers.

In particular, Chinese immigrants have made a major contribution to population growth, and in the 32 years since the founding of the country, the early immigrants have multiplied to the third generation, and many imperial nobles and wealthy merchant families with many wives and concubines have a population of tens or hundreds.

In the fertile land of North America, the abundant supply of grain, oil, eggs and milk has also made the second and third generation immigrants taller, stronger, and smarter.

The sound of firecrackers removes the old year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Shortly after the Lunar New Year in 1878, the Empire's war machine was quietly set in motion, following the established steps.

Havana, Cuba

The civil war that lasted for more than nine years has caused Cuba to be depressed and the local people are living in hardship. The sugar plantation industry, which had been the backbone of the economy, was devastated, and its share of exports was lost to rivals such as the Central Plains, Costa Rica, and the neo-colonial zone of Colombia, and the city of Havana was full of beggars and hungry people.

The Spanish colonizers were helpless against the economic woes.

It is never news that the Spaniards were not good at economic construction, they would only brutally plunder and squeeze the colonies, and then spend great wealth in the construction of Catholic churches and the extravagant life of the aristocracy, and so on.

Take the Spanish silver peso, for example;

The Mexican silver peso, the Cuban silver peso, and the Luzon silver peso were at different prices, and the exchange rate was so chaotic for hundreds of years that no Spaniard was aware of the serious problem involved.

This was due to the fact that the Spanish viceroys abroad had great power, and they were all emperors of one side, and had neither the will nor the solution to the problem of promoting the unification of the exchange rate of the silver peso in the colonies.

Isn't it strange that the Spanish colonies had to rely on the exchange of silver pesos with the British pound in order to start international trade?

Although Cuba is in a depression and many Chinese businessmen have withdrawn, most of Cuba's trade is still in the hands of Chinese businessmen and has a decisive influence.

Havana Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce

Nine years of civil war and social unrest have left hawala's market increasingly dilapidated and trade shrinking dramatically, to less than a quarter of what it was before the civil war.

Most of the members of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce have also left, and the Chinese-style buildings carved and painted by the Chamber of Commerce have been dusty for a long time, and they look much more dilapidated.

Zhou Qingren, the chairman of the gray-bearded society, was sitting and drinking tea in the chamber of commerce, his brows were solemnly twisted into the word "Sichuan", and he seemed to be thinking about something?

At this time, the door was pushed open, and a man came in from the outside, and said with a smile; "Brother Qingren has been gone for a long time, but his demeanor is still better than in the past, but do you welcome me, an old friend?"

Zhou Qingren looked up, he was almost so frightened that he threw the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, he hurriedly put the tea bowl on the table on the side, walked a few steps quickly, and pinched Zhu Fengchen's arm with both hands, just about to say something......

Suddenly stopped again, turned around and walked to the door and looked around, and saw that there were 4 sturdy men guarding the corridor in the distance, obviously with bulging pockets around their waists.

"Brother Qingren don't worry, that's our buddy." Zhu Fengchen explained with a smile.

Zhou Qingren put his mind at ease, closed the door tightly, looked back at Zhu Fengchen and said with some complaint and some happiness; "Lord Zhu heard that he has been promoted to the bureau and has entered the center steadily, why is he here now? The Spaniards hate you for itching teeth, and if you go out and hide it, you will never have any good fruit to eat? ”

"Hehehe...... Deputy Directorate. Zhu Fengchen corrected him nonchalantly, he turned out to be just the director of the Third Operations Division of the General Security Bureau of the Empire, how could he suddenly skip the rank of deputy director and go straight to the bureau?

Businessmen can indeed speak, and the word "bureau seat" makes Zhu Fengchen feel very good, and it is indeed much better than the "deputy bureau seat".

The two exchanged a few words, Zhou Qingren personally made tea, and the two sides sat down separately, and then asked the main question.

"Take the liberty of making a big deal, brother Fengchen, are you here because of that?"

"Yes, the stakes are very high, and I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others, so I have to sit in charge myself. To avoid any mistakes, Shangfeng blames it, and you and I can't afford to bear it. ”

"The candidates have been selected, it is Gao Fengda, the owner of the Fengda Commercial Bank, who has always been mean and stingy, and walks very close to the Spaniards. has done a lot of bad things that hurt nature and reason, and dozens of members of the family live in a mansion on rue Monttier. "Zhou Qingren is an influential figure in the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce and was directly involved in the planning of the incident, so he said it one by one in a clear manner;

"We have several internal lines in the local area, and when the time comes, we will guide the mob to storm the Fengda Commercial Bank and loot the mansion on the Avenue de Montier, and all aspects have been arranged, so there should be no problem."

Zhu Fengchen nodded thoughtfully, thought about it and said; "When the mob starts, can we arrange for a few of our own people to go in, so that we can better guide the development of the situation."

"It should be no problem, as long as it is a local, this Fengda trading house has a very bad reputation, and many people have gone bankrupt by lending usury, and there are not a few who hate him. After the mob is launched, who knows what kind of people will be involved? I can't tell the mess apart! ”

"That's fine, without further ado, it's scheduled to start tomorrow night." Zhu Fengchen is still resolute and resolute, and he directly made a final decision.

"In such a hurry?"

"How...... Is there anything else you haven't prepared? ”

"No, no, no...... Everything is ready, then start it on time tomorrow night, anyway, I have done enough of this immortal business, welcome the imperial army as soon as possible, and create a new situation as soon as possible. ”

"Hahaha...... That's right! ”

In the secret room of the Chamber of Commerce, the two looked at each other and laughed, each with a thought in their hearts.

(End of chapter)